Still, Silent Doves Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By TimTam on 01-Jan-11. Waypoint GA3067

Mrs Beetle and our grandson were travelling home today from a few days bike riding at Derby when we stopped at the Frankford cemetery to see if we could find any graves with still, silent doves on them. We actually managed to find 2, not bad for a small rural cemetery.
Recently we walked up and down the much larger Latrobe cemetery and couldn't find a single one!
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S41 36.574 E147 06.988 SILENT DOVE

I found this small dove on a grave in the Old Methodist Cemetery in Longford Tasmania. The only information on the grave is "Mother".

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A silent dove on the grave of Samuel Elyard the fourth son of William Elyard. He was a surgeon with the Royal Navy & was born 9 May 1817 died 23 October 1910. His brother, also a surgeon with the Royal Navy, is buried in the family plot along with their parents.

GrimRaider and I took a detour into Windsor today on the way home from Nelson Bay. I wanted a photo of the Royal Hotel and thought I would grab the trig at St Matthews Church as well. On the off chance, I had a search through the cemetery and found a pair of doves on one of the graves. Photo taken and cache grabbed - cool as I need this cache for the SSS series. TFTC

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Image taken with GPS

Found today
GPS took image

Found today
GPS took image

Found this on a recent walk around Fremantle Cemetery.

GPS took the image.

Tried Bulli cemetery last week - not one single dove. Tried Castlebrook today & found this one

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Wandering the Southport General Cemetery, actually looking for a specific grave but keeping an eye open for doves. Graves in this cemetery date from the turn of the 20th century, although they have discovered an earlier burial from before this became a gazetted cemetery, and there are more recent burials assuming your family has already 'bought land'.

I wondered as I walked up and down the rows where the doves would be. Do I need to look in the oldest part of the cemetery or around the newer graves. Approaching the oldest part of the site (having started in the area of 1950s) I discovered Bertha Stanfield's headstone featuring a dove representing the Holy Spirit. Bertha died in November 1905, then as I photographed Bertha's memorial I glanced over and noticed Henry Rogers (DoD April 1905) both had doves sculptured into their marble headstones, both over 100 years old and still in reasonable condition. Both appeared to be in a Church of England section. I wonder if that is significant for heritage graves featuring doves.

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I found these doves resting on a grave in the Rye Cemetery, VIC

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Spotted lots of birds while wandering around the Woden Cemetery. Budgerigars, wrens, magpies, parrots and a few doves. I chose this one.

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Found this rather sad and very weathered dove on a head stone in the Gerringong cemetery unfortunately all the engraving has faded away and I could not get a name or date.

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On our way back from Ralphs Falls this afternoon, we called into the Ringarooma Cemetery. We found two graves with still, silent doves. One grave had a number of similar items and it is a photo of this grave that we have added to the gallery. A closer view of one of the doves has also been included. Thanks TimTamToo for the cache.

These are the only Doves in the Pimpama Uniting Church Cemetery. Lots of Angels here. This grave is a concrete Dove Birdbath.
I walked around the whole cemetery lucky it is an old small one. The earliest burial recorded is 1878. The 4.9 hectares was purchased in 1872. The Historic Original Uniting Church building is still here. This is also where the war memorial is and the soldier that Queenslanders salute when they drive past...it's tradition for us.TFTCTimTamToo

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This Still, Silent Dove was spotted at All Saints Anglican Church, Henley Brook.

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We found this lonesome dove residing at the Cherry Gardens cemetery in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

It belongs to Elsie Scroop, who passed away in February 1931 at the age of 40.

This dove has been sitting here for nearly 86 years!

Thanks TimTamToo.

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My incredibly patient geohubby took me to 3 cemetaries hunting for a dove. This was the best we could do, although we were entertained by some of the other headstones we found including a lion, a fish and a mack truck. I hope you will accept this as I am logging it for the summer scavenger series. If not let me know and I will change this to a note. I liked the idea that William is flying free at last and I hope he didn't mind the visit. thank you TimTamToo

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I spent time exploring Traralgon Cemetery today and almost came up empty handed! I found a magpie, owls and a robin but no doves. I found some that were images on a gravestone but then this little fellow was spotted amongst a collection. TFTC TimTamToo

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We found this Still, Silent Dove in an old church in the Swan Valley, WA

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Out and about for the Summer Scavenger Series 2016 and located this dove.

A silent dove which has been there almost 100 years

Found this cache with the family whilst on a holiday in Tasmania.

It's a rather large white bird. I reckon it's a dove...just a touch overweight.

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Here is my dove in Springwood cemetery

Walked around Springwood cemetery with the kids looking for white birds. Plenty of angels, and a kookaburra...but we found what we needed. Here is mine

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I didn't think I was going to have much luck on this occasion as all I seemed to find were angels, however, one row at a time and there was a headstone with two doves perched on top. Located in the lawn section at Bowral General Cemetery, Bowral.

After noticing all of the new scavenges for the Summer Scavenger Series we were in Richmond with JJCC today and drove up to the lawn cemetery specifically to find a dove for this scavenge.

Richmond Lawn Cemetery - Dight Street, Richmond (NSW)

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Located a small dove at the Beaconsfield Cemetery. TFTL

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The silent doves in the huon Lawn Cemetery.
Thanks for this cache which I am using for the Summer Scavenger Series.

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Found this dove while visiting family and searching for the Summer Scavenger Series.
Richmond Lawn Cemetery - Dight Street, Richmond

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A dove at the Beaconsfield Cemetery in northern Tasmania.. thanks..!!

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This dove was found while visiting my mother’s resting place at the Cornelian Bay Cemetery, New Town, Tasmania. TFTLC

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I have been looking for this one for awhile now and must admit that I missed seeing this one in the Nanango Cemetery till now.
I journeyed to another Cemetery and found a few then it was suggested I have a good look in the local Cemetery first as
I could only claim this one once. Just off the path not that far inside the Entry off Carins Street nanango Qld. TFTL TIMTAMTOO

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Found these doves while out caching around the Marburg Cemetery, Qld.

Located whilst visiting Ballina with my younger sister.

While caching in the Adelong Cemetery, we found a white dove on top of one of the graves. The graves in here are really cool, I guess we were just lucky to find this one.

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I keep looking for them, and once thought I finally found some but no, they're were just little angels or cherubs... [sigh]

Found these three doves while out caching with Oldsaint

Like quiet1_au I too had been searching for awhile.

Then while completing a nearby cache I spotted this one.

Freshwater Creek Cemetery is situated just west of Geelong in Vic.

Bizarelly I noticed that I took this photo exactly a year ago!!

Better a late log than never.

TFTL

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Found this dove but not the smiley

Hi TimTam
Went to Cygnet to look for GC43AN4 "The 'holy' top of Town" by HawkHunter42 and saw this little cute, still, silent Dove below ground zero.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.
PS You and Swampy have a HAPPY, SAFE NEW YEAR.

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Spotted this very old one in Nowra.......

Thanks for the locationless.

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GCA 613 - 6393. Found on the way down to Shellharbour. At least it wasn't a Weeping Angel ! (Dr Who fans will understand !!).

TFTC !!

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Luckily this was a pretty quick find. As I wandered through the cemetery looking along the rows, I spotted this dove about 10 rows in.

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This was tougher than I thought it was going to be. There were lots of angels but eventually I found a dove
Thanks for the cache Tim Tam and the interesting time spent wandering around a graveyard

Spotted while caching around Darwin recently

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Spotted these whilst hunting a GC cache in the Margaret River cemetery

Felt a bit odd putting the gps on the grave but will go back if necessary. This was a very elaborate gravesite-very sad really.

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Day eleven of our excursion out of Tasmania touring from Melbourne to Canberra and return via Gippsland was marked by the very dense fog in Canberra but this cleared very quickly into clear blue skies and virtually no wind – excellent caching conditions. We started by looking for a couple of puzzle caches in Canberra (plus some traditional along the way) and then we headed north to Yass, caching only in the New South Wales part of the drive. Again we had a very enjoyable touring and caching daY.

Whilst we were visiting the Yass cemetery to view Hamilton Hume's grave, we came across this rather forlorn dove. Originally the dove was under a glass dome but that had been broken and now the dove is at the mercy of the elements. TFTC TimTam

Go for it

Was looking for a trad cache nearby, and also any weeping angels (an archived cache that I thought was still active) when I came across this one.
Thanks for the cache, Tim Tam!

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